![]() Its crew had finished odd fix-it jobs on Saturday. The repair ship Vestal floated to the port side, tied to the Arizona. The first boat ashore left early, barely seven hours after the last boat tied up the night before with stragglers racing curfew. The weather was warm, so the uniform of the day was white shorts and a T-shirt. On board Sunday, some of the crew dressed for liberty in Honolulu, their first time off the ship in days. A week of watching, waiting, chasing ghosts, ever on alert. The big battleship had steamed into Pearl Harbor on Friday after almost a week at sea, a week of target practice and maneuvers with other vessels in the Pacific Fleet. ![]() But on a Sunday, the USS Arizona was slower to awaken.
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